tenure track
Adjective
Meaning
tenure track (not comparable)
Alternative form of tenure-track
tenure-track (not comparable)
(education, of a professorship or other academic job) Possessing contractually guaranteed terms of employment specifying that, after a period of time, the employed person will be considered for tenure status, which typically confers enhanced job security and sometimes other benefits.
Alternative names
tenure-track
Examples
D level, is required to teach as a tenure-track music theorist in a US or Canadian university.
Dartmouth employs a total of 607 tenured or tenure-track faculty members, including the highest proportion of female tenured professors among the Ivy League universities.
In the past, Ioannis has served in the faculty ranks of Purdue University (tenure-track) and NC State University and as an engineer at IBM.
In exchange for federal funding to reduce public college and university tuition to zero, he said, at least 75 percent of college courses would have to be taught by tenured or tenure-track professors.
Each tenure-track faculty member is required to submit a self-assessment of his/her performance in teaching, research, service and professional development covering the previous calendar year.
UWM Provost Johannes Britz announced in an email to employees Monday that tenure-track faculty who request an extension of the tenure clock will be granted one, due to the pandemic's disruption to regular research, teaching and scholarship.